Tuena, Cosimo Di Lernia, Daniele Rodella, Claudia Bellinzona, Francesca Riva, Giuseppe Costello, Matthew C Repetto, Claudia
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Memory & cognition
Growing evidence has revealed the crucial role of motor simulation and spatial perspective-taking in action language. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how motor and spatial processes interact when there are multiple actors involved, and if embodied processes are consistent across different cultures. To address this gap, we examine...
Liu, Shaohang Briscoe, Josie Kent, Christopher
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Memory & cognition
Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is typically observed in verbal memory tasks, although a few studies have observed RIF in visual spatial tasks. This leaves an open question as to whether RIF depends on semantic identity to link across semantic properties of objects, or whether RIF depends on access to the perceptual features of objects. To explo...
Ortega-Escobar, Joaquin Hebets, Eileen A Bingman, Verner P Wiegmann, Daniel D Gaffin, Douglas D
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Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
From both comparative biology and translational research perspectives, there is escalating interest in understanding how animals navigate their environments. Considerable work is being directed towards understanding the sensory transduction and neural processing of environmental stimuli that guide animals to, for example, food and shelter. While mu...
Baess, Pamela Ecker, Ullrich K H Janssen, Steve M J Jin, Zheng Bermeitinger, Christina
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Memory & cognition
Previous research has suggested that culture influences perception and attention. These studies have typically involved comparisons of Westerners with East Asians, motivated by assumed differences in the cultures' self-concept or position on the individualism-collectivism spectrum. However, other potentially important sources of cultural variance h...
Yousif, Sami R McDougle, Samuel David
A variety of phenomena related to the oblique regions of space have been observed across modality and across domain. For instance, the classic ‘oblique effect’ describes a deficit in visual acuity for oriented lines in the oblique regions of space, and classic ‘prototype effects’ describe a bias to mis-localize objects towards the oblique regions o...
Davis, Helen E Gurven, Michael Cashdan, Elizabeth
Navigational performance responds to navigational challenges, and both decline with age in Western populations as older people become less mobile. But mobility does not decline everywhere; Tsimané forager-farmers in Bolivia remain highly mobile throughout adulthood, traveling frequently by foot and dugout canoe for subsistence and social visitation...
Grigoroglou, Myrto Landau, Barbara Papafragou, Anna Ünal, Ercenur Kırbaşoğlu, Kevser Karadoller, Dilay Z. Sumer, Beyza Ozyurek, Asli Beekhuizen, Barend Coventry, Kenny R
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Decades of research have revealed that spatial language is the result of a complex interplay between language-independent, conceptual factors and language-specific forces (e.g., Bowerman, 1996; Johnston & Slobin, 1979; Landau & Jackendoff, 1993; Levinson & Meira 2003; Levinson & Wilkins, 2006). However, currently, a growing body of research acknowl...
Davis, Helen E Gurven, Michael Cashdan, Elizabeth
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Topics in cognitive science
Navigational performance responds to navigational challenges, and both decline with age in Western populations as older people become less mobile. But mobility does not decline everywhere; Tsimané forager-farmers in Bolivia remain highly mobile throughout adulthood, traveling frequently by foot and dugout canoe for subsistence and social visitation...
Akbaryan, Anahid Girgenti, Grace Burte, Heather
When pointing toward north in familiar environments, people tend to point parallel or perpendicular to roads suggesting that individuals may point toward north more accurately when nearby roads are coincidentally aligned with the cardinal directions (Brunye et al., 2015). To further test this, we investigated north pointing at Texas A&M University,...
Resnick, Ilyse Hegarty, Mary Uttal, David Lowrie, Tom
Spatial reasoning is an inherent aspect of everyday life. For example, spatial reasoning supports young children playing with blocks, older children learning about positioning on a sports field, and adults navigating where they need to go. Spatial reasoning is also a critical aspect of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, e.g., Wai,...
